Musical Styles
In the 19050s, this type of music was marketed to the teen and young adult market.
What is Pop Music?
If you went to see a movie in the early 20th century, you would hear this type of music
What is live accompaniment? (solo piano/organ or small orchestral music)
If you're playing the snare drum part on this piece of music, you'll need to really concentrate!
What is Bolero by Maurice Ravel?
This composer wrote String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 33, no. 2 (The Joke)
Franz J. Haydn
This Italian term means "beautiful singing"
What is bel canto?
New Orleans musicians used this term to describe their style to audiences in northern cities like Chicago and New York
What is Jazz?
This music that was popular in the 1960s featured intense emotional expression and melismatic vocalizations
What is a soul music?
This was the first symphonic work by an African American composer to be performed by a major American orchestra
What is Afro-American Symphony by William Grant Still?
This composer wrote I Got Rhythm
George Gershwin
This type of singing features vocalizing with nonsense syllables to an improvised or composed melody.
What is scat singing?
When you see syncopated rhythms with a regular bass line, you know it is this type of music
What is Ragtime?
This is the decade you would be in if you went to the store to buy a new kind of music recording called a "compact disc" or "CD"
What is the 1980s?
The ballet for this piece of music matches the jerky, staccato sounds that you hear
What is The Rite of Spring, Danse des adolescents by Igor Stravinsky?
She was the first African American Woman to have her symphony performed by a major orchestra
Florence Price
This movement sought to revive or imitate pre-Romantic music in the 1910s through the 1950s
What is neoclassicism?
This type of music refers to musical traditions outside the classical concert hall and opera house.
What is Vernacular Music?
This 20th century composer was know for composing by chance and also composed a piece where the musicians sit in silence for the entire piece
Who is John Cage?
This piece of music opens with a clarinet glissando. The music was advertized as a jazz concerto, but was really a combination of symphonic music and American jazz.
Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin
This composer wrote The Planets
Gustav Holst
This term refers to the idea of treating aspects of music other than pitch according to the principles of Schoenberg's twelve-tone composition
What is total serialism?
This modern style of music is associated with the city of Detroit
What is Motown?
In the 20th century, this type of ensemble developed into a respected, stand-alone ensemble, comparable to the symphony orchestra
What is wind band?
This piece of music features dream-like harp sounds and was written by a composer who bridged the Romantic and Modern periods, often referred to as an Impressionist composer
Prélude à L’áprѐs-midi d’un faune (Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun) by Claude Debussy
This composer wrote Appalachian Spring
Aaron Copland
This type of music has a harmonic progression that features the first phrase on the tonic, the second phrase moving from subdominate to tonic, and the third phrase moving from dominant to tonic.
What are the twelve-bar blues?